I originally had my summer packed all the way up till the school year. However, plans have changed. I’ve cancelled a couple of the workshops I signed up for because I want to slow down and smell the roses. This last school year was very strange. I’ve made progress as a teacher–and at the same time, I’ve regressed. I’m not as stressed out as I was the year before, but I’m drained, angry, or sarcastic. It feels like 6th grade all over again. It is terrible because I can see how some of my students are copying my behavior.

So I’m going to take a vacation! I’d like to say I have 5 weeks of doing nothing–but that would be untrue since I’m teaching private lessons, practicing, fixing instruments..etc. But I’d be doing it all stress free because I’m not going to give myself a deadline on all this stuff.